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On the morning of the 1st, Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol stopped the new Minister of Justice, Park Beom-gye, at the Gwacheon Government Complex. It was the first face-to-face meeting amid the tensions that formed before the ‘Big 4’, a key position in legal matters and the prosecution. Both parties explained that as it was a meeting for a meeting, they did not share issues such as the prosecution staff.
Yun, visited just before the opening ceremony and “congratulations visit”
Park “Anytime to speak openly”
Re-emphasizing the inaugural speech ‘Reform of the Prosecutor’s Office’
General Yoon arrived at the Ministry of Justice at 9:28 am that day with Nam-gwan Cho, the deputy chief of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office. Woo-jung Shim, head of the Planning and Coordination Office of the Ministry of Justice, and the staff of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Ministry of Justice welcomed Yun in front of the first floor lobby. There were no personnel classified under the line of former Minister Choo Mi-ae, such as Sim Jae-cheol, Attorney General of the Ministry of Justice and Kim Tae-hoon, Prosecutor of the Department of Justice.
General Yoon told reporters: “It came from the congratulations on the inauguration of the minister.” Yoon left the government building after speaking with Minister Park for about 15 minutes in the Minister’s Office on the seventh floor of the Ministry of Justice. Justice Ministry spokesman Park Cheol-woo said: “In today’s meeting, the prosecution staff were not mentioned and sooner or later a meeting will be arranged to hear the opinion of the attorney general.”
At the opening ceremony held starting at 10 a.m. on the day, Minister Park revealed that he met directly with Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol. “I will not get caught up in texts and documents. I will meet and speak with members of the Ministry of Justice and the prosecution from time to time. It was interpreted that it was an expression of the determination not to repeat the conflict between the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor’s Office, which had lasted during the days of former Minister Choo.
Minister Park and President Yoon are the grounds of the Judicial Research and Training Institute (mandate 23). This meeting was the first time since the Supreme Attorney’s Office’s state affairs audit in October last year, and it was only four days after Park’s appointment. At the time of the state administration audit, the two exchanged harsh views on the allegation that Yoon defended prosecutor Han Dong-hoon, who was part of the so-called “ Channel A Parole Convergence, ” and that Yoon defended. that.
Meanwhile, Minister Park highlighted the ‘justice of coexistence’ as his inauguration day. Last year, during the state affairs audit of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, he reprimanded General Yoon and used the expression “selective justice.” At the time, Minister Park said, “I think it is a selective justice when this committee member who knows Yoon well knows,” and Yoon said, “Isn’t it an optional question? Didn’t you do that for me in the past? ”
After visiting the Daejeon Prefectural National Center the day before, Minister Park, who wrote in the guestbook, “ I will achieve prosecution reform, ” emphasized the “ prosecution reform ” again that day.
Reporter Ha Jun-ho [email protected]
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